Thompson V86.1.1: Sign of cross prevents child from being stolen from cradle.

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The entry concerns the cross protecting a child from being stolen from a cradle. The source links the omitted cross to the witch’s power and reports the infant missing from its bed, then separately reports witches carrying another boy. The cradle-theft connection is possible rather than certain because the first child’s actual removal is not described.

• „das Kreuz über das Kind zu machen“
• „eine Hexe hatte hierdurch (Gewalt bekommen ihr böses Spiel zu treiben“
• „Ein Knäblein des Nachbardorses Bons konnten die Hexen“